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Eben Hill wrote: <4555??> One comment, it's better to cross post instead of posting two requests. We now have two threads running in to different groups. No biggie, but it helps keep things straight if you actually cross post. (26 years ago, 3-Dec-98, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Looking for review of 4555
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(...) I bought one. In its existing configuration, though, two of the three trains I have (#4559 and #4565) don't clear the side of the overhead "crane". I think the tracks that the overhead crane run in need to be moved out two or three studs to (...) (26 years ago, 2-Dec-98, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: 1 speed regulator 2 trains and tracks
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(...) just (...) I think it's pretty much impossible to damage the train controller no matter what you do to it [1]. Lego expect people to 'experiment', that's the whole point of Lego so you can be sure that if you can build it, it will be safe. [2] (...) (26 years ago, 2-Dec-98, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: 1 speed regulator 2 trains and tracks
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(...) I don't know if it is 'safe' or not, but my kids often use the speed regulator to run the various (non-train) LEGO 9V electric items. Steve (26 years ago, 2-Dec-98, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Train Tables, and my Round House
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(...) That's my next plan (using a router to cut the hole). I just have to decide which plan to follow; 1) to put the turntable onto the table completely, and redesign the size and shape of the round house (cutting one whole hole). 2) put the round (...) (26 years ago, 2-Dec-98, to lugnet.trains)
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Is there any danger in hooking up one regulator to two sets of track with two of the wires that clip to the track. I tried it out and I know that it works but wasn't sure if this was a "legal" thing to do or am I going to end up blowing up the (...) (26 years ago, 2-Dec-98, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Looking for review of 4555
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(...) I think it's a good set but just a tad overpriced. Didn't stop me from getting 3 though. YMMV. (26 years ago, 2-Dec-98, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Looking for review of 4555
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I've posted a copy in the review section but since there isn't much traffic there and since it is train related I posted here too. I hope that is okay. I'm a bit new to the train department and I am contemplating buying this set, 4555, freight (...) (26 years ago, 2-Dec-98, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: 9V Speed Regulators
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On Wed, 2 Dec 1998 08:18:52 GMT, "Eric Brok" <brok@fcjsvc.hvu.nl> wrote: :Ofcourse, LEGO has to deal with a lot of reverse compatibility. For better :or for worse. (Changing from 9V to 12V was a big exception but even that was :aimed at moving to (...) (26 years ago, 2-Dec-98, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: 9V Speed Regulators
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Jasper Janssen wrote in message <3664650f.17422672@l...et.com>... (...) Ofcourse, LEGO has to deal with a lot of reverse compatibility. For better or for worse. (Changing from 9V to 12V was a big exception but even that was aimed at moving to one (...) (26 years ago, 2-Dec-98, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: A new diesel by Ben
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Larry, I will be travelling Amtrak in January, from Chicago to Lincoln, Illinois. If I have a choice, should I go Metroliner if available?? (sorry everyone! But seeing him in trains reminded me to ask! Plus, I would have a Lego frame of reference!) (...) (26 years ago, 1-Dec-98, to lugnet.trains)
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On Mon, 30 Nov 1998 22:54:31 GMT, "Matthew Bates" <train_depot@yahoo.com> wrote: :Jasper Janssen writes: : >I stopped Lego before 9V trains came out - Does this mean LEgo 9V uses :>PWM instead of just reducing the voiltage to 0? my 12V transformer (...) (26 years ago, 1-Dec-98, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Train Tables, and my Round House
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Hello, I am just about to router a circular hole near the middle of a large modular table. (Built based on Bens design) When I built it, I modified it for this purpose, I did not place a crossbrace in the middle, but rather put crossbraces at one (...) (26 years ago, 1-Dec-98, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Train Tables, and my Round House
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Well, I finally had a few rainy days to try to finish building my LEGO Train Tables (following Ben's original design). ftp://jeffk.com/pub/...lding.html I started to put my Round House onto the table, and remembered that I'd want to imbed the (...) (26 years ago, 1-Dec-98, to lugnet.trains)
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| | 4552 to be Discontinued?
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Are train sets discontinued as frequently as other system sets? I'm interested in #4552 Cargo Crane (available from S@H only), but I'm over my LEGO budget for quite a ways into next year. Should I borrow? DJ Zorn (26 years ago, 1-Dec-98, to lugnet.trains)
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On Sun, 29 Nov 1998 20:06:05 GMT, "Ben Fleskes" <benfleskes@msn.com> wrote: :Fully agreed. I see this all the time at the train shows PNLTC goes to. :People spending small fortunes to buy an engine or a car simply to run it :around a track. Well I (...) (26 years ago, 30-Nov-98, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: 9V Speed Regulators
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Jasper Janssen writes: >I stopped Lego before 9V trains came out - Does this mean LEgo 9V uses (...) No they aren't PWM, they vary the voltage between 0 and 9V See (URL) (26 years ago, 30-Nov-98, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Track Switch solenoids
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On Thu, 19 Nov 1998 01:39:31 GMT, Larry Andersen <neonglass@earthlink.net> wrote: :My problem with using pneumatics for the job is that the pistons stick :after sitting for a while. You have to break them loose manualy before :they will work (...) (26 years ago, 30-Nov-98, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: 9V Speed Regulators
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On Thu, 19 Nov 1998 04:24:02 GMT, Mark Harrison <harro1@one.net.au> wrote: :The reason this is of interest to me is that I have always wanted to use :12V lighting sets with my 9V setup but as the regulators always said :9-10V I thought it would not (...) (26 years ago, 30-Nov-98, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: A better boxcar? (was: Re: Thanks to Terry Cruse and Ali V.
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On Fri, 6 Nov 1998 20:42:39 GMT, "Dan Parker" <danp@qi2.com> wrote: :I must agree with Ben -- and this might be a little more blunt. As much of a :LEGO trainhead that I am, I find it difficult to justify building a shrine to :the 9v series in its (...) (26 years ago, 30-Nov-98, to lugnet.trains)
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